ungainly looking young
men I ever saw. I gave my other vote for Wilberforce,* on account of his good conduct in Africa, a place
returning no members to parliament, but still, from the extraordinary
resemblance its inhabitants bear to human creatures, of some consequence. An
election out of Westminster is sad work—at the moment of the greatest
ferment, York was, in the two great points of ebriety and pugnacity, as quiet
as average London at about 3 o’clock in the morning.”

William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, second earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833)
The nephew of the Marquis of Rockingham and lifelong friend of Charles James Fox and Lord
Carlisle; he was president of the Council (1806-07) and lieutenant of the West Riding from
1798 to 1819 when he was dismissed for his censure of the Peterloo massacre.